About Us

Before coming together to form Air Banners, our founding team have all been involved in active water sports and various kite capacities globally: design, display and organisation. Collectively we already have nearly 100 years of outdoor event marketing and display experience. We now look forward to using our skills, experience and new technology to entertain and promote your company to large audiences around the world.

Benefits to working with the Air Banners Team:

Working with a team that includes Peter Lynn who has made the world’s largest kite and is the father of modern power kiting having invented kite buggying and made major contributions to kite surfing.

The promotion of Air Banners are visible from a distance and will attract and retain large crowds at your desired location.

Air Banners can be launched extremely quickly and put on a display in a small time slot to complement existing events.

The Air Banners Team

  • Paul Reynolds – General Manager

    Paul Reynolds – General Manager

    Paul is from London, England and has been flying kites for over 20 years.   He has represented his country at World Championship Level and was responsible for founding the International Rules Book Committee and implementing much of the current structure around sport kite flying today.  With his wife, who he met through kiteflying, he is an avid collector of single line kites.

    He is most often seen at kite festivals talking.  His knowledge of kites, kiteflyers and enthusiasm for kiteflying has led him to being one of the most well know commentators at kite festivals around the UK and at various events around the world.  He has commentated at kite festivals in America, Holland, New Zealand and Malaysia.    Paul has over 20 years experience advising individuals, charties and companies on investment and business.

  • Abdulrahman Al-Farsi – Chairman

    Abdulrahman Al-Farsi – Chairman

    Abdulrahman is a businessman from Kuwait with a passion for flying big kites. He holds the current Guinness World Records for the biggest kite  thanks to his amazing kite in the form of the Kuwait national flag.  

    This was made and
designed for him by Peter Lynn. It is a staggering 42-meters wide
and 25-meters long, nearly as big as an Olympic swimming pool.  Using 2500 sq meters of specially reinforced fabric and weighing 200kgms, the mass of air inside this kite when flying is a mind blowing 5 tons. 



    Earlier this year Abdulrahman Al-Farsi arranged the Kuwait International Kite Festival where similar kites for America and Japan joined his in the sky over Kuwait City.

  • Peter Lynn – Technical Support and Design

    Peter Lynn – Technical Support and Design

    Peter Lynn is a world famous New Zealand kitemaker, engineer and inventor.   He has been making and flying kites for over 35 years.  He is noted for developing huge themed (often sea creature) single line show kites that are the mainstay of International Kite festivals the world over.

    He has also made enormous contributions to the development of power kiting and kite surfing.
Peter is unique in the scale and breadth of his contribution to kite flying.  A pioneer of kite surfing, the inventor of kite buggying , world leading in the emerging field of kite sailing and the world’s number one single line kite maker.

    Peter and his awesome kites are in such demand at kite festivals around the world that he spends six to eight months a year traveling.  He has designed the last five kites to be awarded the Guinness World Record for biggest kites in the World and has had numerous honours and awards bestowed on him.

  • Stefan Cook – Operations Manager and Design

    Stefan Cook – Operations Manager and Design

    Stefan has been involved in kiteboarding and mega kite displays through out New Zealand from a very early age.  His passion and knowledge for kites and water sports lead him into a professional kiteboarding carrier where he’s competed in, and won, kiteboarding events throughout Europe and Australasia.  His skills were quickly noticed by a leading kite manufacture, and for the previous eight years he was based in Holland, Australia and England to promote kiteboarding products.

    Stefan managed a professional kiteboarding team and played a large part in the production of kiteboarding kites from development to consumer delivery. He’s currently developing a side venture that manufactures the world’s only commercial kite-powered sailing boat.  He competed in the infamous Weymouth Speed Week, England, where he claimed 2nd position and won the Dennis Ward trophy for innovation.

    If he’s not under an Air Banner, you may find him enjoying a ride on the bike where he’s the current New Zealand National Raleigh 20 & Healing Champion. 
His traveling journey has brought him to every continent to kiteboard professionally and for enjoyment.